Corie Waugh

Field Studies: Exercises in a Living Landscape

Field Studies: Exercises in a Living Landscape

Opening night and In Conversation

Photodocumentation by Corie Waugh Exhibition statement: “Presented in conjunction with Capture Photography Festival, Field Studies investigates radical and inventive ways in which our everyday landscape might be experienced and mapped. Rebecca Bayer and Laura Kozak’s community-based project The Hadden Park Map Exchange (developed through the Vancouver Parks Board Field House Residencies) documents the coming together […]

 Irene Lo

Gestures of Distance: Far Away So Close Part II

Gestures of Distance: Far Away So Close Part II

A reading by Stephen Collis at Access

Words + Photos By: Irene Lo        Access Gallery, under the direction of Kimberly Phillips, has a material relationship with words. Curating objects in space and putting text on a page are not separate actions. Words have a physical presence in Part II of the Far Away So Close where Part II explores […]

 Andi Icaza-Largaespada

Home Dream Home: a Corporeal and Ethereal Location as Art

Home Dream Home: a Corporeal and Ethereal Location as Art

Interview + Photographs by Andi Icaza-Largaespada On the evening of November 28th, Access Gallery held the opening of Catherine Pulkinghorn’s exhibition Home Dream Home, curated by Shaun Dacey. Home Dream Home is a process-based dialogue on the construction of Home as space for shelter and lifestyle, and the real estate market’s simultaneous toll on socioeconomic […]

 Mark Jacobs

Site-Specificity: Eight Ounces Half a Pound

Site-Specificity: Eight Ounces Half a Pound

Vancouver’s racialized labour history inspires a sculptural response at Chinatown’s Access Gallery.

There is no shortage of artists who concentrate on site-specific work these days; and there is no shortage of galleries looking to display work that bears the strong formative and associative imprints of having arisen in a particular time and space. But most often, the relocation of the work into the gallery setting cannot help […]

 Ash Tanasiychuk

Conjured Citations at Access Gallery

Conjured Citations at Access Gallery

A stop motion animation recreation of the original performance art piece

Photography and animated filmmaking by Ash Tanasiychuk On May 5 2013, as part of In This Together (curated by Derrick Chang), the Tri-University Master of Arts Colloquium between Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD), Simon Fraser University (SFU), and University of British Columbia (UBC), Guadalupe Martinez and Charlene Vickers, in collaboration with Luciana […]

 Ash Tanasiychuk

SWEAT

SWEAT

Basket weaving performance by Gaye Chan @ Access Gallery

Stoked that I swung by to shoot Gaye Chan’s performance/theatre/demo piece SWEAT – it was even more visually alluring than I had hoped, and although a blustery windy day, there were enough people caught by her seemingly disembodied arms working away on weaving baskets to make for interesting shots. I spoke with Chan during, and […]